Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

2001-05-25 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:20:15 +0200, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:53:47PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: The only way to avoid those problems is to move struct task out of the kernel stack pages and to use a task gate for the stack fault and double fault handlers

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-23 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 23 May 2001 05:36:20 -0400, Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:07:38PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: >> What is the point of including it in the kernel source tree without the >> code to convert it to ser_a2232fw.h? Nobody c

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-23 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 23 May 2001 09:17:08 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 23 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >> Is drivers/char/ser_a2232fw.ax supposed to be included? Nothing uses it. > >It's the source for the firmware hexdump in ser_a2232fw.h, pro

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-23 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 23 May 2001 05:36:20 -0400, Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:07:38PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: What is the point of including it in the kernel source tree without the code to convert it to ser_a2232fw.h? Nobody can use ser_a2232fw.ax, it is just

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-22 Thread Keith Owens
Is drivers/char/ser_a2232fw.ax supposed to be included? Nothing uses it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:24:54 +0200, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 22 May 2001 02:59, Keith Owens wrote: >> # Not a real dependency, this checks for hand editing of .config. >> $(KBUILD_OBJTREE)include/linux/autoconf.h: $(KBUILD_OBJTREE).config

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:24:54 +0200, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 02:59, Keith Owens wrote: # Not a real dependency, this checks for hand editing of .config. $(KBUILD_OBJTREE)include/linux/autoconf.h: $(KBUILD_OBJTREE).config @echo Your .config

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-22 Thread Keith Owens
Is drivers/char/ser_a2232fw.ax supposed to be included? Nothing uses it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 2001 16:38:34 -0400, John Stoffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >All that CML2 does is enforce dependencies in the configuration >language. You can't make a .config which conflicts. Admittedly >there's nothing stopping you from hacking it with vi after the fact, >but why? CML2

Re: Hang with SMP 2.4.4 snd log

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 2001 10:26:20 +0200 (CEST), kees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I got a next hang with my SMP system, kdb log attached. Something strange >with the backtrace for CPU 0. Here is the first cut from the kdb log.. I do not trust either of those backtraces. There is no way to get from

Re: const __init

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 17:34:48 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(let me know if the following test is flawed) > > [jgarzik@rum tmp]$ cat > sectest.c > #include > #include > static const char version[] __initdata = "foo"; > [jgarzik@rum tmp]$ gcc -D__KERNEL__

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 101 16:38:45 +1000 (EST), Allan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 > if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d->devid, DEVID_CS5530) for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) printf("I must scan kernel archives before report bugs\n");

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 101 16:38:45 +1000 (EST), Allan Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid, DEVID_CS5530) for (i = 0; i 1000; ++i) printf(I must scan kernel archives before report bugs\n);

Re: const __init

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 17:34:48 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (let me know if the following test is flawed) [jgarzik@rum tmp]$ cat sectest.c #include linux/module.h #include linux/init.h static const char version[] __initdata = foo; [jgarzik@rum tmp]$ gcc -D__KERNEL__

Re: Hang with SMP 2.4.4 snd log

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 2001 10:26:20 +0200 (CEST), kees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a next hang with my SMP system, kdb log attached. Something strange with the backtrace for CPU 0. Here is the first cut from the kdb log.. I do not trust either of those backtraces. There is no way to get from

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 2001 16:38:34 -0400, John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All that CML2 does is enforce dependencies in the configuration language. You can't make a .config which conflicts. Admittedly there's nothing stopping you from hacking it with vi after the fact, but why? CML2 will not

Re: const __init

2001-05-20 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:16:11 +0200, Franz Sirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, and gcc3 errors on these constructs, cause it cannot decide if the data >should be put into a .data or .rodata section. >Dunno if it's worth to create a __initconstdata/__initrodata though, but it >would be easy

Re: [kbuild-devel] Patch for sbus makefile bug

2001-05-20 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:47:38 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Somebody failed to track a module name change. >-obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc.o >+obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc_i2c.o bbc-objs := bbc_i2c.o bbc_envctrl.o The module is bbc.o,

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-20 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:18:56 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> The dependencies in CML1 are (supposed to >> be) absolute - the 'advisory' dependencies you're adding are arguably a >> useful feature, but

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-20 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:18:56 -0400, Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The dependencies in CML1 are (supposed to be) absolute - the 'advisory' dependencies you're adding are arguably a useful feature, but please don't make

Re: [kbuild-devel] Patch for sbus makefile bug

2001-05-20 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:47:38 -0400, Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody failed to track a module name change. -obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc.o +obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc_i2c.o bbc-objs := bbc_i2c.o bbc_envctrl.o The module is bbc.o, bbc_i2c.o is

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:14:33 -0400, Ben Bridgwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To present a dumbed down UI targeted for "Aunt Millie" or >whoever against the protests of the mainstream kernel tool audience >makes zero sense to me, as don't Eric's repeated antagonistic comments. How many times

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete >and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such >that it can be passed directly to printk like > > printk(version);

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such that it can be passed directly to printk like printk(version); Nit

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:14:33 -0400, Ben Bridgwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To present a dumbed down UI targeted for Aunt Millie or whoever against the protests of the mainstream kernel tool audience makes zero sense to me, as don't Eric's repeated antagonistic comments. How many times do we

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Keith Owens
cc trimmed back to mailing lists only. On Fri, 18 May 2001 10:53:53 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (a) Back off the capability approach. That is, accept that > people doing configuration are going to explicitly and > exhaustively specify low-level

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Keith Owens
cc trimmed back to mailing lists only. On Fri, 18 May 2001 10:53:53 -0400, Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (a) Back off the capability approach. That is, accept that people doing configuration are going to explicitly and exhaustively specify low-level hardware. No,

Re: newbie problem: compiling kernel 2.4.4, make modules_install , Help please !

2001-05-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 17 May 2001 20:50:46 +0200 (CEST), Joel Cordonnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's the first time that i try to compile my own >kernel. At the moment, I have an old RH 6.1 with a >2.2.12 kernel. >- make modules_install ==> PROBLEM ! >FIRST the message say that no argument -F exist for

Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:40 +0200, "Martin.Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please turn off MIME when sending to linux-kernel, especially those useless vcards at the end of your mail. > When I diff config files pocessed by "make [old]config"

Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:40 +0200, Martin.Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please turn off MIME when sending to linux-kernel, especially those useless vcards at the end of your mail. When I diff config files pocessed by make [old]config and make

Re: newbie problem: compiling kernel 2.4.4, make modules_install , Help please !

2001-05-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 17 May 2001 20:50:46 +0200 (CEST), Joel Cordonnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the first time that i try to compile my own kernel. At the moment, I have an old RH 6.1 with a 2.2.12 kernel. - make modules_install == PROBLEM ! FIRST the message say that no argument -F exist for the

Re: Kernel 2.2.19 + VIA chipset + strange behaviour

2001-05-15 Thread Keith Owens
Bug in include/linux/module.h. Patch against 2.2.19. This does not explain your oops, the ksymoops message is a separate bug. Index: 19.1/include/linux/module.h --- 19.1/include/linux/module.h Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:37:17 +1100 kaos (linux-2.2/F/51_module.h 1.1.7.2 644) +++

Re: Kernel 2.2.19 + VIA chipset + strange behaviour

2001-05-15 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 15 May 2001 18:04:35 +0930 (CST), Jonathan Woithe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.2.19. Options used >Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol module_list_R__ver_module_list not found in >System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry module_list was added to the export

Re: Kernel 2.2.19 + VIA chipset + strange behaviour

2001-05-15 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 15 May 2001 18:04:35 +0930 (CST), Jonathan Woithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.2.19. Options used Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol module_list_R__ver_module_list not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry module_list was added to the export list

Re: Kernel 2.2.19 + VIA chipset + strange behaviour

2001-05-15 Thread Keith Owens
Bug in include/linux/module.h. Patch against 2.2.19. This does not explain your oops, the ksymoops message is a separate bug. Index: 19.1/include/linux/module.h --- 19.1/include/linux/module.h Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:37:17 +1100 kaos (linux-2.2/F/51_module.h 1.1.7.2 644) +++

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 14 May 2001 23:55:37 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > And lilo ? >Also hdparm >raidtools >psmisc >mtools >mt-st >gpm >joystick kmod, /etc/modules.conf: alias block-major-what-random-number-did-the-kernel-pick-this-time driver_name - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Minor nit to pick

2001-05-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:16:50 -0400 (EDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After running make menuconfig (and it's friends) you get told >to type "make bzImage" which is only right for i386, and IMHO should be >changed to be arch dependant. The 2.5 Makefile rewrite splits the kernel build into three

Re: Minor nit to pick

2001-05-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:16:50 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running make menuconfig (and it's friends) you get told to type make bzImage which is only right for i386, and IMHO should be changed to be arch dependant. The 2.5 Makefile rewrite splits the kernel build into three

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 14 May 2001 23:55:37 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lilo ? Also hdparm raidtools psmisc mtools mt-st gpm joystick kmod, /etc/modules.conf: alias block-major-what-random-number-did-the-kernel-pick-this-time driver_name - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Oops in 2.4.4-ac6, ksymoops output included

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:52:24 -0400 (EDT), "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.4-ac6. Options used >Warning (read_object): no symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.4-ac6/build/drivers/pnp/pnp.o ksymoops should not be reading objects from /build/. It looks like you

Re: [OT] Keith Owens your email address isn't working

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 11 May 2001 05:47:16 -0400 (EDT), "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Whenever I post to linux-kernel with your name in the Cc or To, >the mail bounces back 5 days later Your mail is coming from 24.70.141.118 which has no reverse DNS and is somewhere in shaw.ca. I have

Re: [OT] Keith Owens your email address isn't working

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 11 May 2001 05:47:16 -0400 (EDT), Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I post to linux-kernel with your name in the Cc or To, the mail bounces back 5 days later Your mail is coming from 24.70.141.118 which has no reverse DNS and is somewhere in shaw.ca. I have received too

Re: Oops in 2.4.4-ac6, ksymoops output included

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:52:24 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.4-ac6. Options used Warning (read_object): no symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.4-ac6/build/drivers/pnp/pnp.o ksymoops should not be reading objects from /build/. It looks like you are

Re: 2.4.4-ac6 compile error in plip.c

2001-05-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 10 May 2001 08:46:43 -0500, Moses McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, I get the following error trying to compile 2.4.4-ac6 using gcc >2.95.4 (debian package). > >plip.c:1412: __setup_str_plip_setup causes a section type conflict The first __initdata is marked as const, the second

Re: Detecting Red Hat builds ?

2001-05-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:25:29 +0100 (BST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The problem is I have a driver that includes syncppp.h which in the releases >from kernel.org is in linux/drivers/net/wan/ up to and including 2.4.2 after >which it moves to linux/include/net/. Do it in the Makefile. Untested:

Re: Detecting Red Hat builds ?

2001-05-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:25:29 +0100 (BST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is I have a driver that includes syncppp.h which in the releases from kernel.org is in linux/drivers/net/wan/ up to and including 2.4.2 after which it moves to linux/include/net/. Do it in the Makefile. Untested:

Re: 2.4.4-ac6 compile error in plip.c

2001-05-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 10 May 2001 08:46:43 -0500, Moses McKnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I get the following error trying to compile 2.4.4-ac6 using gcc 2.95.4 (debian package). plip.c:1412: __setup_str_plip_setup causes a section type conflict The first __initdata is marked as const, the second is

Re: odd insmod problem

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 09 May 2001 12:54:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marius aamodt eriksen) wrote: > insmod /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.4.o > >i get a whole bunch (50 in fact) unresolved symbols. going through >some of them, i can see that they do in fact exist. for example: > > root@gone:~ > grep

Re: signal

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 9 May 2001 14:28:16 +0200, sebastien person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to send signal from a kernel module to an user prog. force_sig() in kernel/signal.c - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.6 is available

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 06 May 2001 16:02:35 +1000, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ftp://ftp..kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4 >modutils-2.4.6-1.sparc64.rpmNot available yet, waiting for a sparc machine. Thanks to DaveM, modutils-2.4.6-1.sparc64.rpm is now available in t

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.6 is available

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 06 May 2001 16:02:35 +1000, Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.country.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4 modutils-2.4.6-1.sparc64.rpmNot available yet, waiting for a sparc machine. Thanks to DaveM, modutils-2.4.6-1.sparc64.rpm is now available in the above

Re: signal

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 9 May 2001 14:28:16 +0200, sebastien person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to send signal from a kernel module to an user prog. force_sig() in kernel/signal.c - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: odd insmod problem

2001-05-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 09 May 2001 12:54:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marius aamodt eriksen) wrote: insmod /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.4.o i get a whole bunch (50 in fact) unresolved symbols. going through some of them, i can see that they do in fact exist. for example: root@gone:~ grep

Re: kdb wishlist

2001-05-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 8 May 2001 15:32:47 +0200, "Manfred Spraul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One addtional wish list entry: > >'ss' and especially 'ssb' could print the new value of the overwritten >register/memory address in each line, perhaps both the old and new >value. I don't need new wishlist entries,

kdb wishlist

2001-05-08 Thread Keith Owens
This is part of my kdb wishlist, does anybody fancy writing the code to add any of these features? It would be a nice project for anybody wanting to start on the kernel. Replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please. Current patches at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ * Change kdb invocation

Re: 2.4.5-pre1 Unresolved symbol in module ide-mod.o

2001-05-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 8 May 2001 11:07:38 +0200, "Ben Castricum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >root@spike:~# depmod -ae 2.4.5-pre1 >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.5-pre1/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-mod.o >depmod: invalidate_device_R25a4b0b2 Try http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8 - To

Re: 2.4.5-pre1 Unresolved symbol in module ide-mod.o

2001-05-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 8 May 2001 11:07:38 +0200, Ben Castricum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root@spike:~# depmod -ae 2.4.5-pre1 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5-pre1/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-mod.o depmod: invalidate_device_R25a4b0b2 Try http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8 - To unsubscribe

Re: kdb wishlist

2001-05-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 8 May 2001 15:32:47 +0200, Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One addtional wish list entry: 'ss' and especially 'ssb' could print the new value of the overwritten register/memory address in each line, perhaps both the old and new value. I don't need new wishlist entries, I need

kdb wishlist

2001-05-08 Thread Keith Owens
This is part of my kdb wishlist, does anybody fancy writing the code to add any of these features? It would be a nice project for anybody wanting to start on the kernel. Replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please. Current patches at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ * Change kdb invocation

Re: scripts/Configure patch for automatic module compile

2001-05-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 7 May 2001 00:34:13 -0600, Maciek Nowacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're like me, you build everything as modules, boot with an initrd that >loads in the disk or net driver and filesystem module, and then let kmod take >care of the rest. Here's a patch that changes Configure (make

Re: scripts/Configure patch for automatic module compile

2001-05-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 7 May 2001 00:34:13 -0600, Maciek Nowacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're like me, you build everything as modules, boot with an initrd that loads in the disk or net driver and filesystem module, and then let kmod take care of the rest. Here's a patch that changes Configure (make

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 6 May 2001 03:35:34 -0400 (EDT), "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >>A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or >>2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. > >I don't see how

[patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or 2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. But renaming the image does not change the value of uname -r so it still tries to use modules 2.x.y, which defeats the purpose of saving an working kernel. Normally I would say that this

[patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or 2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. But renaming the image does not change the value of uname -r so it still tries to use modules 2.x.y, which defeats the purpose of saving an working kernel. Normally I would say that this

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 6 May 2001 03:35:34 -0400 (EDT), Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or 2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. I don't see how this patch is necessary when we have EXTRAVERSION

Announce: modutils 2.4.6 is available

2001-05-05 Thread Keith Owens
. * /dev/rtc can be a module. Urs Thuermann. * Do not assume that malloc(0) returns a pointer. Bug report by Kiichiro Naka, different fix by Keith Owens. * Cross compile changes. Maciej W. Rozycki. * Better explanation for rmmod -a. Marc Herbert

Re: XFS and Alan kernel tree

2001-05-05 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 5 May 2001 23:08:16 +0200, Daniel Podlejski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I merge XFS witch Alan tree (2.4.4-ac5). It's seems to be stable. >Patch against Alan tree is avaliable at: > >http://www.underley.eu.org/linux/patch.ac-xfs.diff.bz2 > >It's 1.0 SGI release. Only XFS, pagebuf and

Re: XFS and Alan kernel tree

2001-05-05 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 5 May 2001 23:08:16 +0200, Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I merge XFS witch Alan tree (2.4.4-ac5). It's seems to be stable. Patch against Alan tree is avaliable at: http://www.underley.eu.org/linux/patch.ac-xfs.diff.bz2 It's 1.0 SGI release. Only XFS, pagebuf and POSIX ACLs

Announce: modutils 2.4.6 is available

2001-05-05 Thread Keith Owens
Yamamoto. * /dev/rtc can be a module. Urs Thuermann. * Do not assume that malloc(0) returns a pointer. Bug report by Kiichiro Naka, different fix by Keith Owens. * Cross compile changes. Maciej W. Rozycki. * Better explanation for rmmod -a. Marc Herbert

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On 04 May 2001 15:11:37 +0200, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >|> Wrap the reference to the parent task structure with exception table >|> recovery code, like copy_from_user(). > >Exception tables only protec

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 04 May 2001 07:34:20 -0500, Todd Inglett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But this is where hell breaks loose. Every process has a valid parent >-- unless it is dead and nobody cares. Process N has already exited and >released from the tasklist while its parent was still alive. There was

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 04 May 2001 13:37:08 +0200, Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have searched a long time for a method to disable the internal >speaker for every application, every daemon and so on. Userspace problem, userspace fix. setterm -blength 0 (text) xset b 0 (X11) - To

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 04 May 2001 13:37:08 +0200, Nico Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have searched a long time for a method to disable the internal speaker for every application, every daemon and so on. Userspace problem, userspace fix. setterm -blength 0 (text) xset b 0 (X11) - To unsubscribe

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 04 May 2001 07:34:20 -0500, Todd Inglett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this is where hell breaks loose. Every process has a valid parent -- unless it is dead and nobody cares. Process N has already exited and released from the tasklist while its parent was still alive. There was no

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On 04 May 2001 15:11:37 +0200, Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Wrap the reference to the parent task structure with exception table | recovery code, like copy_from_user(). Exception tables only protect accesses to user virtual memory. Kernel

Re: 2.4.4-ac4 and menuconfig

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 4 May 2001 13:54:49 +1000, Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >when building with 2.4.4-ac4 and using make menuconfig, the options in >"Processor type and features --->" are not changable. other options >seem to change fine.

Re: nfs debug??

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 3 May 2001 18:11:43 -0400, Kapish K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to disable logging to console, as that eats up my console >space...I want it to just log to log/messages. sysrq-1 or write a program that calls syslog(2) as syslog(8, NULL, 1); - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 3 May 2001 12:59:21 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> (3) For failing constraints, freeze the guard variables, change >> the dependent variable to satisfy the constraint then

Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 3 May 2001 03:47:55 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, so you want CML2's "make oldconfig" to do something more graceful than >simply say "Foo! You violated this constraint! Go fix it!" (i) Start with a valid config. CML2 will not allow any changes that

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On 03 May 2001 09:13:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pavel Machek) wrote on 30.04.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> PS: Hmm, how do you do timewarp for just one userland appliation with >> this installed? > >1. What on earth for? Y10K testing :) >2. How

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On 03 May 2001 09:13:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pavel Machek) wrote on 30.04.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PS: Hmm, how do you do timewarp for just one userland appliation with this installed? 1. What on earth for? Y10K testing :) 2. How do you do it

Re: nfs debug??

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 3 May 2001 18:11:43 -0400, Kapish K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to disable logging to console, as that eats up my console space...I want it to just log to log/messages. sysrq-1 or write a program that calls syslog(2) as syslog(8, NULL, 1); - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.4.4-ac4 and menuconfig

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 4 May 2001 13:54:49 +1000, Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when building with 2.4.4-ac4 and using make menuconfig, the options in Processor type and features --- are not changable. other options seem to change fine.

Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 3 May 2001 12:59:21 -0400, Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (3) For failing constraints, freeze the guard variables, change the dependent variable to satisfy the constraint then freeze it. There's the problem

Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 3 May 2001 03:47:55 -0400, Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so you want CML2's make oldconfig to do something more graceful than simply say Foo! You violated this constraint! Go fix it! (i) Start with a valid config. CML2 will not allow any changes that violate the

Re: Logging kernel oops

2001-05-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 02 May 2001 20:57:16 +0100, "Joseph Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is the preferred what of getting debugging information from a kernel >oops? Is my only way connecting a monitor and getting a pencil and paper? >Is there any conceivable way I can get some useful debugging

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 2 May 2001 16:06:15 -0500, Paul J Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to know more about your plans to enhance KDB with source level debug >capability. Use a combination of gdb and kdb. kdb to support kernel internals, gdb to take the kdb output and add source level data. It

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 2 May 2001 16:06:15 -0500, Paul J Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know more about your plans to enhance KDB with source level debug capability. Use a combination of gdb and kdb. kdb to support kernel internals, gdb to take the kdb output and add source level data. It

Re: Logging kernel oops

2001-05-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 02 May 2001 20:57:16 +0100, Joseph Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the preferred what of getting debugging information from a kernel oops? Is my only way connecting a monitor and getting a pencil and paper? Is there any conceivable way I can get some useful debugging

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 01 May 2001 18:42:01 -0700, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This patch is not showing up on ftp.kernel.org. hpa says it is a bandwidth problem in kernel.org, have patience. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Compiling modules for kernel 2.4

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
On 1 May 2001 13:11:33 CDT, shreenivasa H V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am having trouble compiling the modules for kernel 2.4. The compilation >doesn't go through, it just goes into each directory and says "nothing to do" >and comes out. The object files are not created. Does your 2.4.4

[patch] 2.4.4-ac2 freexvfs

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
fs/Makefile requires that any filesystem which can be compiled as a module must have O_TARGET set to the directory name. Against 2.4.4-ac2. Index: 4.8/fs/freevxfs/Makefile --- 4.8/fs/freevxfs/Makefile Tue, 01 May 2001 23:35:00 +1000 kaos (linux-2.4/d/e/32_Makefile 1.1 644) +++

[patch] 2.4.4-ac2 freexvfs

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
fs/Makefile requires that any filesystem which can be compiled as a module must have O_TARGET set to the directory name. Against 2.4.4-ac2. Index: 4.8/fs/freevxfs/Makefile --- 4.8/fs/freevxfs/Makefile Tue, 01 May 2001 23:35:00 +1000 kaos (linux-2.4/d/e/32_Makefile 1.1 644) +++

Re: Compiling modules for kernel 2.4

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
On 1 May 2001 13:11:33 CDT, shreenivasa H V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble compiling the modules for kernel 2.4. The compilation doesn't go through, it just goes into each directory and says nothing to do and comes out. The object files are not created. Does your 2.4.4 .config

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 01 May 2001 18:42:01 -0700, Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch is not showing up on ftp.kernel.org. hpa says it is a bandwidth problem in kernel.org, have patience. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:17:22 -0500, Paul J Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where can I find an analysis of the relative strengths and weaknesses of KDB >and KGDB for kernel debug? Has the linux community come to any consensus >regarding the utility one or the other? kdb is a really low

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:10:56 -0400, "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >> Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: initializing socket 0 >> Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: socket 0: Aironet PC4800 >> Apr 30 13:19:34

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 01:31:20 +0200, "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: >> The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing >> 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for >>

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 00:43:42 +0200 (CEST), Kai Germaschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly >zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is >totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good

Re: make bzlilo seems to ignore non-standard kernel path in lilo.conf (/boot)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:16:24 +0200, Olaf Stetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >when I tried to get rid of the problem I wrote about two days ago in >this list I compiled the kernel several times but unfortunately it was >not installed correctly by the make target bzlilo. make INSTALL_PATH=/boot

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